I don't think you're ready for this jelly! Scratch that, I don't think your ready for these tight abs. The Magic Mike 2 trailer has officially landed, pulling us right back into this world of sexy man candy. We couldn't stay away, and neither could Channing Tatum, who can't help but bust a move around his workshop.

Two summers ago, Magic Mike wildly overperformed at the box office. It made almost forty million during its opening weekend, and as such, the talk of a sequel began almost immediately, as did the talk of a Broadway play. In the time since, however, the initial excitement has worn off and not a whole lot about the second movie and whether or not it was on or off has been shared publically.

I am just now getting used to viewing Channing Tatum as a reliable actor. Early roles in forgettable trash like Dear John and Stop-Loss told me to stop paying attention to Tatum as a performer, but recent roles in The Vow, Magic Mike and 21 Jump Street have me singing a different tune. But now you say I have to start contemplating a world where Tatum is a respected director as well?

It was a no-brainer that Tatum was one of the clear winners of the summer 2012. So we were happy to report that not only was Tatum, looking to make a sequel, but also is considering helming it himself. However, he and Carolin are well aware what a tricky leap it is to go from actor-producer to actor-producer-director. But Tatum's got a plan.

Back in July, when asked about a possible sequel to Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, star and producer Channing Tatum told fans they were working on a concept for a follow-up, and that they're looking to "flip the script and make it bigger." Beyond that, we can really only guess what they have in mind for Magic Mike 2, and assume it will include a few great dance scenes, much like the first one did. Now there are a few new clues about the movie, including the possibility of Tatum directing.

We’re gearing up for the fall film season, when studios stockpile most of their possible awards contenders. The last few months of 2012 should be crowded with valuable viewing opportunities, so we wanted to take a moment and reflect on the best films we’ve seen so far this year. Hopefully, we’ll spotlight a film you haven’t seen yet, and, if so, inspire you to go hunt it down as soon as you can.

Normally I’d chuckle at the concept of a Magic Mike sequel, chalking it up to the wishful thinking of an actor keeping all future acting options open. But as of July 25, Steven Soderbergh’s male-stripper fantasy had banked an impressive $102.6 million domestically.

If raunch-coms are your thing you were living the dream this weekend. Pervy teddy bears and a chorus of male strippers dominated the box office, snagging the top two spots and almost $100 million between them.

It turns out Magic Mike is awesome. It doesn’t even need a qualifier saying it’s awesome for a movie about male strippers. It’s just flat out awesome. I may not have enjoyed it in the same way as the screaming women alongside me in the packed theater, but I found dozens of moments to laugh and smile

As promised by the strong box office at their midnight screenings, both of this weekend's new releases have a lot to brag about-- and neither will have trouble knocking out last weekend's box office champion Brave

Alright, by now there can't possibly be anyone left who doesn't know why you'd want to see Magic Mike. It's been enthusiastically marketed as the movie to go see with a group of girlfriends-- one TV spot actually crows "You'll wish you were single!"-- and ogle all the male flesh on display

Though Magic Mike is getting a lot of the attention and the hottest advance ticket sales, it's looking like a real horse race between two R-rated movies at the box office this weekend. Both Magic Mike and the Seth MacFarlane-Mark Wahlberg comedy Ted debuted to surprisingly strong midnight screenings last night

This week on Operation Kino we're waxing our chests and strapping on G-strings, as we review the new Steven Soderbergh/Channing Tatum male stripper movie Magic Mike. From there we look over the year so far, pointing out our favorite and least favorite movies of the year so far

In our ongoing effort to help you make sense of Netflix Instant's overwhelming catalogue of streaming titles, we offer this bi-weekly column in which we search for worthwhile watching so you don't have to. Whether you don't want to brave the high temperatures to venture out to your local theater, or just want more movies you can enjoy from the comfort of your couch, we've got you covered with a selection of features that are fitting companion pieces to the latest batch of theatrical releases.

In Magic Mike, Matthew McConaughey's character Dallas explains to the new kid Adam that their work is all about wish-fulfillment for the women who pay to watch them strip. These women get to ogle handsome men, sometimes get private lap dances from them, and maybe fall for them a little bit

"It's not what you're expecting." That was the warning coming from critics the minute the embargo lifted on Magic Mike, the Steven Soderbergh film whose trailers have promised glittery, pop-fueled male strip shows

Joe Manganiello doesn’t play a superhero in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. He plays a male stripper. But even guys who take their clothes off while on screen dream of one day slipping on the skin-tight suits of the comic book industry’s most recognizable heroes, and Manganiello is no different.

I'll be really interested to see what kind of CinemaScore Magic Mike gets, if the people who expect a silly romp will be turned off by the heavier drama, or if they'll be engaged enough by Channing Tatum's performance and the awesome supporting cast to go along for the ride

Two men have gone public with accusations that 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike star Channing Tatum has stolen key aspects of their lives as male dancers when putting together the Mike story – which Steven Soderbergh directs.

If you're anything like us, every time you've heard Rihanna's "We Found Love" in the last few months, you've immediately thought of Magic Mike, the new Steven Soderbergh movie set in the world of male strippers that used the song to glorious effect in the first trailer

It’s a jam-packed week for the Rotten Watch with four movies hitting the big screen. So let’s not dilly-dally around when we’ve got strippers, teddy bears, estranged families and unfortunately more Madea

Alex Pettyfer is the start of Steven Soderbergh's upcoming film Magic Mike, though you wouldn't know it from the trailers, which rightly emphasize this year's breakout star Channing Tatum. And Pettyfer, to be honest, probably seemed like a better bet as a star a year and a half ago

Magic Mike is about a male stripper (Channing Tatum) working down in Florida who finds himself become responsible for a new recruit called The Kid (Alex Pettyfer). Mike shows The Kid the ropes and how to live the stripper life, but things start getting messy when Mike meets a woman named Paige (Cody Horn) who isn't a big fan of his lifestyle. The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Olivia Munn, Riley Keough and Adam Rodriguez.

You know how half the new posters that come online or in theaters today seem to have some kind of gimmick, whether they're animated online "motion posters" or the kind of holograms that move when you walk past them in the theater lobby? We get them all the time for silly horror movies and other films that really need the attention

Even if you're not especially into male strippers-- and trust me, no one is really into male strippers-- you have to admit the dancing here is kind of amazing, as is Matthew McConaughey's soon-to-be-immortal line "I see a lot of lawbreakers in the room tonight."

Though Channing Tatum has been the centerpiece of the Magic Mike marketing so far, thanks to his dual hits of The Vow and 21 Jump Street and his all-around awesomeness, his story isn't actually the center of Magic Mike, at least as far as we know

So far 2012 has been the year of Channing Tatum. While the movies that he's made this year - Haywire, The Vow and 21 Jump Street - have had varying success, both at the box office and with critics, the fact of the matter is that it's now April and there have been very few weeks where it was impossible to see a Tatum movie in theaters . And thanks to the upcoming release of Magic Mike that streak won't be ending anytime soon.

The first image is obviously the saucier one, though I can't figure out why Tatum seems so confident in the front while Matt Bomer is looking mighty strained as he tries to remove his trenchcoat. But the second photo is pretty entertaining to, with the very ripped Matthew McConaughey counting his cash

I have to admit that I was relieved when Soderbergh revealed that this movie is a comedy. For a while I was worried that the Traffic director was going to try and make a serious movie about dudes he take their gear off for a living and I couldn't help but think about the incredible disaster that was Showgirls. I still have no idea how a movie with Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer in the two leads is going to work, but at least they will be purposefully trying to make us laugh.

While it might not be surprising to hear that a movie about male strippers is funny, especially given that first image of Matthew McConaughey in a skimpy Uncle Sam outfit that you see above. But you really never know with Soderbergh, especially since he recently took the seemingly cheesy idea of an ensemble of actors facing a deadly, world-ending foe and turned it into Contagion

Starring Pettyfer as the character inspired by Tatum, trying to scratch out a living and make his way in the male stripper world, Magic Mike includes a few other hunks like Batt Bomer, along with some token women to be played by Wendi McLendon-Covey and Olivia Munn. It's a little unclear how silly the movie will be intentionally-- is it a Burlesque kind of over-the-top melodrama

While the casting for Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike began with a list of dudes who can take their shirts off without feeling shame, recent weeks have diverted from that pattern. Ever since True Blood's Joe Manganiello joined in mid-August, the list of actors signing on has included Riley Keough, Cody Horn, Gabriel Iglesias, Olivia Munn and Wendi McLendon-Covey

I found very little to criticize in the blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids, but I do wish that the movie had given more on-screen time to Wendi McLendon-Covey. Incredibly funny and exhibiting no boundaries when it comes to language, she was not only great as part of the group, but was also paired perfectly with Ellie Kemper (who also didn't get nearly as much time as she should have).

Olivia Munn, the curvaceous former co-host of G4’s Attack of the Show, is negotiating to join Magic Mike as Amber, Channing Tatum’s love interest. Soderbergh’s film, working from a Reid Carolin script, is loosely based on Tatum’s early days as a male dancer, which is how the G.I. Joe star paid the bills before breaking into acting

With the exception of recent additions Cody Horn and Riley Keough, the casting of Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike has developed a pretty obvious pattern. Thus far in pre-production the movie has added Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, and Joe Manganiello. If you haven't figured it out yet, all of the actors are guys that women wouldn't mind seeing without their shirt on.

No offense to Horn or Keough, but I still think Magic Mike is going to be all about the guys. Soderbergh knows what he's doing casting famous pretty boys Matthew McConaughey and Matt Bomer in a movie based on Tatum's early days as a male stripper, and it's how he directs all that male beefcake that we're all dying to check out

At one point Soderbergh was considering casting Lindsay Lohan in the part, but according to a source, "he didn't want to deal with all that." "All that" presumably meaning Lohan's many, many tabloid-ready troubles, plus the fact that the movie would immediately become "Lindsay Lohan's stripper movie"-- a title that didn't work out so well for I Know Who Killed Me, after all

The movie starts shooting in September, and its existence pretty much confirms that all the talk of Soderbergh's retirement was nonsense-- the guy seems busier than ever these days. And with Magic Mike he'll be bringing us yet another movie that seems to be a total departure from what he's done before

It would seem that Steven Soderbergh is on the hunt for good looking men. In addition to having Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer already signed on to his male-stripper movie, Magic Mike, it was reported yesterday that Matthew McConaughey has also enlisted in the film. If you think that the insanely productive director is going to stop there, however, you're dead wrong.

When it comes to casting his male stripper movie Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh has been pretty consistent in his casting: everyone on board thus far has light hair and looks good when they're not wearing a shirt. The project already stars both Channing Tatum and Alex Pettyfer, but now the filmmaker has signed the king of "Where's My Shirt?"

It wasn't even at Sundance, where she co-wrote and starred in two different hit films, that I realized Brit Marling was going to be a big deal. It was a few weeks later, when Marling popped up on Community as Britta's new "lesbian" friend, that she suddenly seemed to be everywhere

The film, called Magic Mike, finds Tatum playing an older character who mentors the younger version of himself played by Pettyfer; "it's a wild summer of dancing, partying and women" promises Deadline. It's unclear exactly when Soderbergh plans to make the movie

Titled Magic Mike, it draws on Channing Tatum's own history as a male stripper, though unlike in real life, he'll play the old veteran who tutors an up and comer on the grinds of working in the industry